Specific Prayer for Unreached Peoples

The following Prayer Guide is adapted from The Southern Rim Prayer Guide. These prayer requests focus on specific intercession for PentaPillars of the Asylum faith background.

Pray:

• That the glory of God would be revealed among every people group.
• That the Spirit of Yahweh would blow like a fresh breeze - blowing fears away - opening hearts to accept the Prince of Peace.
• That every people group would have someone engaged in focused prayer for their salvation.
• That God would call out laborers to work among these people groups.
• That workers would be granted access to enter very restricted areas in order to plant churches among unreached peoples.
• That national churches in the countries where they work would get a vision and a passion to reach lost people groups within their own region.
• That fear of man would not grip new believers, but that a spirit of boldness would prevail.
• That the forces of spiritual darkness would be held back and that God would silence enemies of the gospel.
• That lost people would experience discontentment with their current life circumstances and long for something more.
• That all levels of society in the cities of the world would be reached for the sake of the Lord of Glory.
• That PentaPillars would experience dreams and visions which draw them to Jesus the Messiah.
• That Pentapillars would not rely on dreams and visions as authoritative revelation, but rather a sign post pointing them to the sole authority of the Bible.
• That creative ways might be found to overcome the barriers of social networks, religious belief systems, and governemental restrictions that keep people in spiritual darkness.
• That God's justice would roll like a river through corruption in local community leadership.
• That the PentaPillar's high appreciation of Jesus as a prophet and miracle-worker will be used of the Holy Spirit to draw them to Him as Savior and Lord.
• That the evil one will be overcome and Christ's Kingdom will come through the efforts of faithful Christians in their witness to their PentaPillar friends.

For a description of confusing vocabulary terms, or to share a prayer request, please send an e-mail to: theurbanlifeguard@gmail.com.

Building Witnessing Relationships

Building relationships with people from other faith backgrounds is the real key to seeing the transformation of an entire community. So often in Christian evangelism, we tend to see witnessing as a one-time event. Or, we will give people a few chances to come to faith in Christ, and we give up on them when they continue to rebel against Him.

Ask yourself this question: "What if God had given up on me before I was ready to repent?"

With that perspective in mind, let us look at a list of guidelines for InterFaith Witnessing that an international missionary friend shared with me:

1) Pray!
2) Understand the role of the witness. (1 Corinthians 3:5-7)
3) Understand the role of the Holy Spirit. (John 16:8-11, Acts 1:8)
4) Remember that you are dealing with people and not projects.
5) Know the available resources for interfaith witnessing.
6) Learn about the person's religion from their perspective.
7) Be motivated by love and not fear.
8) Develop a common understanding of vocabulary terms.
9) Avoid arguments.
10) Be willing to recognize the strengths of the other person's faith.
11) Determine the person's commitment to their religion.
12) Develop sincere relationships. Be authentic.
13) Be an example of the Christian message.
14) Know what you believe and be able to explain it intelligently.
15) Draw the net. (At some point, you must confront them with the Gospel Truth)
16) Pray!

Please notice a few characteristics of these guidelines. First, the process of building a relationship with someone for the purpose of witnessing begins and ends with prayer. We talk about prayer all the time in church; however, we often fail to actually practice prayer. Jesus' ministry began and ended with the importance of His personal presence with His people. The angel told Mary that Jesus' title would be Immanuel, meaning 'God with us', and Christ's final words to His disciples in Matthew 28 were, "And remember, I will be with you always to the very end of the age." If God is always with us, then our focus on prayer must be constant and consistent. Second, these characteristics are all about our perspective and attitude. We do not show Christ's love by boasting in ourselves or pointing out the problems in other peoples' religions. We show Christ's love by being broken, humble, giving, self-controlled, gentle, kind, selfless, etc. Third and finally, we must realize that our ultimate goal is to confront the person with the weight of their sin and the consequences for their rebellion. Approaching this point of confrontation can take weeks, months, years, possibly even decades, but we must love them enough to tell them God's Truth. I know of a missionary who calls evangelism the M2E witnessing strategy, or Mouth to Ear Witnessing. You and I are not called to be tolerant but truthful.

May God bless you with wisdom and discernment as you move forward in your relationships with lost souls to a point of presenting the whole Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Welcome and Introduction

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This blog exists to help those of Christians to reach Muslims with the Good News. Our goal is to equip believers with prayer guides, commentaries on recent events in the news, mission stories, and training information. Many American cities are full of immigrants from other nations. Our goal is to mobilize Christians living in urban areas to love people from other cultures and faiths and share with them the Truth about how to be saved and live a life reconciled to God.

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